Send a Cow is a growing and dynamic international development charity providing ongoing support to smallholder farmers in Ethiopia. We give poor families and communities the hope and the means to secure their own futures from the land, in line with our vision of a confident, thriving and sustainable rural Ethiopia.

We are recruiting a Junior Value Chain and Marketing Officer for Zonal Programme in Dawuro, SNNPR.

Employment type:  Fixed term contract (3 years)

No of required : 1

Job Title: Junior Value chain and Marketing officer (1) Duration: Three years’ fixed term contract (36 months)
Department: Programme
Location: Dawuro Zone
Reports to: Programme coordinator

BACKGROUND:

Send a Cow summary

Send a Cow is a UK based charity that operates in many African countries of which Ethiopia is one. Send a Cow Ethiopia has a legal ground to operate in Ethiopia having been registered with Charities and Societies Agency as foreign charity with registration No. 0638. Currently, the charity is operating in Amhara and SNNP regions.

Overall Job Purpose

The Junior Value chain and Marketing officer is responsible to take a frontline action in implementing value chain and marketing activities of Send a Cow’s Business and enterprise focused project in Dawuro Zone of SNNPR. This will be through implementation of activities outlined in the project document in collaboration with the Value chain and Marketing officer and other project staffs. He/she is responsible to ensure activities are implemented timely in a manner that will benefit farmer communities and households according to the project document and schedule set by the project team.
The post holder will work under direct supervision of the programme coordinator to improve enterprise and business development of resource poor households and their families targeted by the project. He/she will directly work through community volunteers, in collaboration with other project staffs to ensure that value chain, marketing and enterprise and business development objectives of the project are met.

Key Duties and Responsibilities

1. Develop plan to implement value chain and marketing activities stipulated in the project
document on timely basis
2. Implement planned activities in an effective and efficient manner considering SAC Eth’s
community approaches, gender and child sensitivity
3. Undertake instruction from the value chain and marketing officer in favour of smooth
implementation of project activities and expected to work closely with Value chain and
marketing officer
4. Ensure project beneficiary families as well as larger community members understand,
internalize and adopt value chain and marketing development and practice it
5. Ensure close participation of target families and relevant community groups in the
process of project implementation, monitoring and evaluation.
6. Ensure building capacity of community volunteers, self-help groups, Cluster Level
Associations (CLAs) for practical and quality implementation of project activities
7. Ensure that project beneficiary communities are given equal opportunities to access
project resources.
8. To ensure knowledge and skills on enterprise and business development become part of
the practical life of SHG members, (CLAs), project beneficiary households and their
community at large
9. To ensure necessary technical backup are in place in line with value chain and marketing,
small business development, saving and credit, record keeping, and market
improvement in a business oriented manner
10. Prepare and submit reports to the programme coordinator in close working with value
chain and marketing officer on regular and timely basis.

Person Specifications

Essential

• Educational qualification of BSc in enterprise and business development or related fields
• Minimum of 2 years of field experience in business planning, market assessment, income generation and capital mobilization
• Experience of living and working under difficult and challenging environments.
• Ability to design and implement plans for capacitating community volunteers and self-help groups
• Good communication skill at interpersonal and personal level
• Ability to understand enterprising and business development information, evaluate and make use of it
• Report writing and timely information sharing
• A good level of spoken and written English.
• Knowledge of local languages (Dawurogna) is compulsory
• Computer literacy
• Willingness to live and work at district (Woreda) level